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PS: I should have stated my point more succinctly concerning the last lines
of my latest posting. Ron R. wrote: There's an old saying that when you
find you're in a hole best stop digging. I couldn't help but think of
it--and of Occams's razor (entities should not be multiplied beypnd
necessity") when reading Brian Boyd's latest attempt to force the text of
Pale Fire to offer evidence in favor of his assertion that Hazel Shade is
the real author of "Pale Fire" and <Pale Fire>.
Dont these lines suggest a special reality for Hazel ( as the real author
of poem and novel)? Such a belief is the only possible reason for his
fanning the fire of a debate related to B.Boyds more recent essay to
accompany the new (re?)issue of PF,the poem which I havent yet been able
to read.
De: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] Em nome de
Jansy
Enviada em: terça-feira, 10 de agosto de 2010 11:44
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] RES: [NABOKV-L] [Fwd: Death in Nabokov's Works]
Eric Hyman: Jansy is quite right to call attention to the short stories.
Beyond the obvious Vane Sisters there is also Details of a Sunset, a
story that needs to be solved like a chess problem. I wont give away the
key move here but it does involve consciousness after death.
JM: A great many were written in Russian, while Nabokov was under the sway
of Russian culture and the prevailing beliefs at that period.
They a good point of departure when we want to compare his later
developments to see how his ideas about "the other world" changed and became
less general and more personal.
There are puzzling points when I read comments about "ghosts" in Nabokov's
work. Quite often these ghosts seem to gain life outside literature and
speak directly to the person (who is also a reader.) Extra-textual ghosts?
Nabokov, of course, is always serious even when he is building a satire: he
is expressing real emotions, experiences, fears. One should distinguish when
he writes on "ghosts of madness" (hallucinations and delusional
constructions), or "literary ghosts or ploys," and "synchronicities or
coincidences", "links and bobolinks", real "correlated patterns"
artistically registered - unexplained experiences which serve to indicate
that not everything is totally understood or rendered clear by Western
science. Nabokov also describes different fantasies about the "hereafter".
His conception about "eternity" is never totally convergent. There are
different Nabokovian paradises, hells and eternities. When one uses these
words at times it is necessary to state one's textual point of departure to
highlight their idiosyncrasies. Intermediares between mankind and gods are
equally important ( Hermes, Iris, Seraphs, Prophets. devils)
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of my latest posting. Ron R. wrote: There's an old saying that when you
find you're in a hole best stop digging. I couldn't help but think of
it--and of Occams's razor (entities should not be multiplied beypnd
necessity") when reading Brian Boyd's latest attempt to force the text of
Pale Fire to offer evidence in favor of his assertion that Hazel Shade is
the real author of "Pale Fire" and <Pale Fire>.
Dont these lines suggest a special reality for Hazel ( as the real author
of poem and novel)? Such a belief is the only possible reason for his
fanning the fire of a debate related to B.Boyds more recent essay to
accompany the new (re?)issue of PF,the poem which I havent yet been able
to read.
De: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] Em nome de
Jansy
Enviada em: terça-feira, 10 de agosto de 2010 11:44
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] RES: [NABOKV-L] [Fwd: Death in Nabokov's Works]
Eric Hyman: Jansy is quite right to call attention to the short stories.
Beyond the obvious Vane Sisters there is also Details of a Sunset, a
story that needs to be solved like a chess problem. I wont give away the
key move here but it does involve consciousness after death.
JM: A great many were written in Russian, while Nabokov was under the sway
of Russian culture and the prevailing beliefs at that period.
They a good point of departure when we want to compare his later
developments to see how his ideas about "the other world" changed and became
less general and more personal.
There are puzzling points when I read comments about "ghosts" in Nabokov's
work. Quite often these ghosts seem to gain life outside literature and
speak directly to the person (who is also a reader.) Extra-textual ghosts?
Nabokov, of course, is always serious even when he is building a satire: he
is expressing real emotions, experiences, fears. One should distinguish when
he writes on "ghosts of madness" (hallucinations and delusional
constructions), or "literary ghosts or ploys," and "synchronicities or
coincidences", "links and bobolinks", real "correlated patterns"
artistically registered - unexplained experiences which serve to indicate
that not everything is totally understood or rendered clear by Western
science. Nabokov also describes different fantasies about the "hereafter".
His conception about "eternity" is never totally convergent. There are
different Nabokovian paradises, hells and eternities. When one uses these
words at times it is necessary to state one's textual point of departure to
highlight their idiosyncrasies. Intermediares between mankind and gods are
equally important ( Hermes, Iris, Seraphs, Prophets. devils)
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